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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Indian Summer for Yolo County Sunflower Art Show

2nd UPDATE: This piece SOLD after it's tour in the Sunflower Art show!

UPDATE: This piece has won two prizes this summer. First it received a third place in the Miscellaneous category with other quilts of all kinds at the Dixon May Fair, Dixon, CA; and then it won FIRST Place in the Yolo County Sunflower Art Show, Davis Ca. in the amateur adult category up against paintings, drawings, sculptures, mixed media and other textile pieces of art!

My first attempt to re-do an older art quilt and turn it into something very different and exciting. I took Seeds of Hope I, which won a prize at the Juried Art Show in the Vacaville Art Gallery in 2010, and let the flower grow into a sunflower for the Yolo County Sunflower Art Show this May.
I added golden petals, beads and buttons to the heavily felted flower head and fabric paint to change colors from pink to yellow!



All the new additions were done by hand.


Giving it a highly textured appearance!



This quilt can be seen first at the Dixon May Fair, Dixon, CA May 4-8, 2011;




and at the Davis Art Center, Davis, CA June 10-22, 2011.



Indian Summer is for sale for $240, but buyer must wait until after the Sunflower Show to take ownership.




A percentage of the amount will go to help fight mental illness.








Size: 33" X 16" (widest points petal tip to petal tip)

4 comments:

L'Adelaide said...

lynn, your work just astounds me...what you do with fabric is over the top in terms of creativity and the beading is superb as well. xxx

AM Zafaran said...

It's so beautiful!!! I LOVE it! I love the texture, colors..everything!

Duaa said...

this piece is so rich! Its really beautiful...all your quilting pieces seem to tell a story..you're a brilliant artist..I loved looking through your posts

Gaia said...

I do love the way you have used different textures in your work..so pretty.